English-Thai Dictionary

ghostly

ADJ เหมือน ผี  เต็มไปด้วย ผี  เกี่ยวกับ ผี  phantom ghostlike muane-pe

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GHOSTLY

a.Spiritual; relating to the soul; not carnal or secular. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
1. Spiritual; having a character from religion; as a ghostly father.
2. Pertaining to apparitions.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

GHOSTLY

Ghost "ly, a. Etym: [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gastlic. See Ghost. ]

 

1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

 

2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.

 

GHOSTLY

GHOSTLY Ghost "ly, adv.

 

Defn: Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ghostly

ghost ly |ˈgōstlē ˈɡoʊs (t )li | ▶adjective ( ghostlier, ghostliest ) of or like a ghost in appearance or sound; eerie and unnatural: a ghostly figure with a hood. DERIVATIVES ghost li ness noun ORIGIN Old English gāstlic, from gāst ‘ghost. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

ghostly

ghost ¦ly |ˈgəʊs (t )li | ▶adjective ( ghostlier, ghostliest ) of or like a ghost in appearance or sound; eerie and unnatural: a frightening, ghostly figure with a hood. DERIVATIVES ghostliness noun ORIGIN Old English gāstlic, from gāst ‘ghost ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ghostly

ghostly adjective a ghostly vision at the end of the hallway: spectral, ghostlike, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic; unearthly, unnatural, supernatural; insubstantial, shadowy; eerie, weird, uncanny; frightening, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling, bone-chilling, terrifying, chilling, sinister; informal creepy, scary, spooky.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ghostly

ghostly adjective a ghostly figure appeared at the end of the tunnel: ghostlike, spectral, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic, unearthly, unnatural, supernatural, other-worldly, insubstantial, illusory, unreal, shadowy, eerie, weird, uncanny, mysterious, magical, mystic, strange, abnormal, freakish; frightening, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling, scaring, terrifying, petrifying, chilling, sinister; Scottish eldritch; informal creepy, scary, spooky, freaky; Brit. informal rum.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ghostly

gh ó st ly 形容詞 1 幽霊の (ような ), 薄ぼんやりした .2 ｟古 ｠霊的な, 宗教的な ; 精神的な .gh ó st li ness 名詞